With support from the Newquay Carnival, Newquay Lions and Towan Blystra Lions, Blystra Arts will be running several creative sessions in primary schools and in the community at Nansledan Arts Festival ahead of the 2025 Newquay Carnival. The Blystra team will be making...
A Safer Stronger Communities Commission Connected Communities is a commissioned piece of work funded by Safer Stronger Communities and will be delivered by Blystra Arts between February 2025 to January 2026. The initiative will use creativity as a way of unlocking...
It was a privilege to be asked to deliver an audio version of a new book by Helen Trevaskis. ‘Hope for Cornwall’ is a book created by Homes for Cornwall, a collaboration of influential individuals who want to see the housing crisis in Cornwall tackled. The book is...
Since 2023 Blystra Arts have attended Arts on the Beach, with both their making space and pedal powered off-grid energy system, enhancing the festival in 2023 with their “Bubble Bike Boogie.”
Dec 2020 – The Grand Old Oak Summer 2021 – Space Summer sessions Dec 2021 – Morgawr July 2021 – Space Summer Storytelling Session. In 2020 and 2021 Blystra Arts secured a number of commissions from Cornwall Space, Action for Children’s...
Following on from our Artistic Director, Ellen’s collaboration with St Petrocs charity for homeless people a few years before, Blystra were asked to provide some theatre for the St Petrocs Carol Service in 2018. Jamie Gregory was a poem written by Ellen, set to...
